Filling-replenishing loom.



No. 789,287. PATENTED MAY 9, 1905.

A. M. MAROOUX.

FILLING REPLENISHING LOOM- APPLICATION FILED JAN. 9, 1905- 2 BEEETS-SHBBT l.

No; 789,287. PATENTED MAY 9, 1905.

A. M. MAROOUX. Y FILLING REPLENISHING LOOIVI.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 9, 1905.

2 BHEETS-SHEBT 2.

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ALIDA M. MAROOUX. OF HOPEDALE, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO DRAPER COMPANY, OF HOPEDALE, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPQRA- T1 ON OF MAINE.

FlLLlNG -FREPLENISPHNG LOOllllln SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 789,287, dated May 9, 1905.

Application filed January 9, 1905. $erial No. 240,159.

Be it known that I, ALI'DA M. MARooUx, a citizen of the United States, and a residentof Hopedale, county of \Vorcester, State of M assachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Automatic Filling-Replenishing Looms, of which the following descri )tion, in connec tion with the accompal'lying drawings, is a specification, like characters on the drawings representing like parts.

in automatic looms of the Northrop type such, for instance, as in United States Patent No 5Q9,9 t0--the filling-thread extends from the filling-feeder to the nearer edge of the cloth on the lirst shot of the shuttle after [illing replenishment, and its severance has heretofore been eflected by a temple tl'n'ead-cutter near the selvage, several picks usually intervening before the filling end (as it is termed) is severed. W'ith the addition to such looms of double-fork mechanism, whereby filling failure is detected on the pick in which such failure occurs, a practical difliculty was met, due to the delay in severing the filling end, as the latter would act upon the adjacent filling-fork and tilt it at each forward beat of the lay whether or not the running lilling be intact. Thus the duty of detecting failure of the filling devolved wholly upon the other filling detector or fork, and if failure occurred on the shot of the shuttle toward the replenishing side of the loom delay in replenishing occurred, with the formation of a thin place in the cloth.

.ln United States Patent No. 711,736 means were provided to insure the proper cooperationof the auxiliary fork with the running lilling entirely irrespective of the presence or absence of the filling end. For this purpose the auxiliary fork Was moved into position behind the lilling end presented by the operation of the replenisl'ling mechanism to cooperate only with the running lilling. The time of severance of the filling end was there by rendered immaterial so far as the auxiliary fork was concerned.

In my present invention, which relates to a loom provided with automatic filling-replenl l l ishing mechanism and with double-fork mechanism, I have provided means controlled directly by one of thefilling-forks to effect severance of the lilling end promptly and positively after the lirst pick upon which fresh filling has been laid and before the presence of the filling end can interfere with the proper operation of the auxiliary fork. The mechanism has been simplified. The auxiliary fork is relieved of any abnormal action or move ment, and the filling end is severed quickly and surely.

The various novel features of my invention will be fully descril. ed in the subjoined specification and particularly pointed out in the following claims.

Figure 1 is a top or plan view, centrally broken out, of a double-fork loom provided with automatic lilling-replenishing mechanism and having one embodiment of my present invention applied thereto, the parts being in normal running condition. Fig. 2 is an enlarged transverse sectional detail on the line 2 2, Fig. 1, looking toward the left, showing the auxiliary detector or fork and the lillingend severing means controlled thereby in normal position. Fig. 3 is a similar detail. but with the severing means in position ready to act upon the lilling end as the auxiliary-fork slide returns to normal position after having detected lilling failure. Fig. 4C is an opposite side view of the auxiliary fork and a portion of its slide and showing more clearly the connection between it and the tilling-end-severing means, and Fig. 5 is a detail in side elevation of the movablemember of the severing means to be referred to.

I have herein shown the double-fork mechanism as substantially of the structure illustrated in United States Patent No. 7210M, and, referring to Fig. 1, the main filling detector or fork f, its slidef the fixed stand f, in which said slide is mounted, and the arm (Z, fixedly secured to the controlling rockshaft (55, being all as in said patent and located at the left-hand side of the loom. So, too,

the auxiliary detector or fork (/q its slide and stand 1, located at the right-hand or replenishingside of theloom, are arranged as in Patent No. 727,014, the arm (Z cooperating with the outer end of the slide g having a slight lost-motion connection with the rockshaft cl. Outward movement of the slide acts to arrest take-up, as in the patent referred to, but does not turn the rock-shaft (Z far enough to effect the operation of the replenishing mechanism, the latter comprising a transferrer f and a feeder F to contain a supply of filling-carriers b, of wellknown construction.

The main detector or fork f is herein shown as adapted to directly efiect the operation of the filling-replenishing mechanism, and by or through the dog 6 slide-bar e, pivotally connected with the arm (Z, and the shoulder 8 of the hook w, carried by the main actuator or weft-hammer, (not shown,) the operation of said replenishing mechanism is effected indirectly by or through the action of the auxiliary detector g upon detection of filling failure, all as in said Patent No. 727,014.

The lay A having the usual shuttle-boxes thereon, one of which is indicated at B, Fig. 1, the automatically self-threading shuttle 5*, the breast-beam A the holding-plate N for the shipper S, and the knock-off arm a may be and are all of well-known construction.

Adjacent the standsf and and at their inner sides I have shown temples T and T, respectively, (see Fig. 1,) mounted on the breast-beam in usual manner, the temple T being of usual construction, while the temple T at the replenishing side of the loom is tech nically known as a thread-cutting temple, it being provided with means to sever the filling end which extends from the adjacent selvage to the feeder F after the first shot of fresh filling across the loom.

Referring now particularly to Fig. 2, the normal relative position of the temple T and the auxiliary filling-detecting mechanism is shown, the temple thread-cutter comprising, essentially, a fixed cutting or severing blade a, inserted in a slot or opening in the body of the temple, and a cooperating relatively movable cutting or severing blade 0, bifurcated at its rear end to straddle the blade a and presenting two downturned portions 0 0 each terminating in a hook 0 substantially as in United States Patent No. 585,465. The blade 0 has a depending foot 0", to which is connected the free end of a spring 8, the opposite end of the spring being coiled at 5 around a stud 0 on the temple-body, the spring when free to act moving the blade 0 rearward and upward into operative position. (Shown in Fig. 3.) At such time the hooked portions 0 0 project beyond the temple-body, as in Fig. 3, in readiness to engage and hook over the filling end 2f, Fig. 3. Upon the stand g I have provided a depending ear 1, Figs. 2 and 3, having a lateral stud 2, upon which is pivotally mounted the hub 3 of a rocking connection or arm 4: 5, the part 4: depending below and behind the lateral projection 6 on the foot 0", with which the free end of spring a is connected. The upturned part 5 of the rocking arm is located in the path of movement of a lateral stud 7 on the auxiliary slide g", the relative arrangement of the parts 7 and 5 being such that when the slide is in normal position the lower end 4: of the rocking arm will press forward against the projection 6, flexing the spring 5 and maintaining the blade 0 retracted, the severing means for the filling end thus beinginoperative under normal conditions, as in Figs. 1 and 2.

Upon detection of filling failure by the auxiliary detector g, which will be after the shot of the shuttle toward the replenishing side of the loom, the slide g will be moved forward through its actuator or weft-hammerWV, and as the stud 7 is thus moved forward the spring 5 is permitted to move the blade 0 into the position shown in Fig. 3, rendering the severing means operative or setting it. If the main detector f first detects filling failure, which would be after the shot of the shuttle into the box B, Fig. 1, the auxiliary detector 1 will detect such failure after the return shot to the replenishing side of the loom, and

the blade c'will be operatively positioned in the manner just described. After filling replenishment the shot of the shuttle to box B, Fig. 1, will cause the fresh filling to be laid, and the filling end will extend from the feeder to the nearer edge of the cloth, and the lay will on its forward stroke beat in such fresh filling, while the filling end 2, will pass under the hooked end of the blade 0, as in Fig. 3, the blade being in operative position. As the lay swings back the slide g will move back to its normal position, and on such return movement as soon as the stud 7 strikes the end 5 of the rocking arm 4 5 the arm will be rocked into normal position, positively engaging the projection 6 and retracting the blade 0 into normal position and severing the filling end 6 before the next detecting pick of the fork g.

It is immaterial, manifestly, which fork first detects filling failure, for the severing means will always be set or placed in operative condition in time to cooperate with the filling end as soon as the fresh filling is beaten in, and the severing means will then be operated positively and promptly to sever the filling end before the next detecting pick (after replenishment) of the auxiliary fork.

The arm 4 5 is a controlling connection between the severing means and the adjacent fork, the latter positively and effectively governing the operation of such severing means.

By the invention herein described the filling end is removed from the path of the adjacent fork, so that the latter is perfectly free to operate in the proper and usual manner,

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no mechanism being required to vary the fork action on account of the presence of the filling end, and, furthermore, the latter is promptly and positively severed from the cloth.

The temple herein shown and described can be set nearer the reed than can the ordinary thread cutting temple, because there is absolutely no danger of the cutting device severing the running filling, owing to the fact that normally the movable blade is retracted and completely housed and only operates upon detection of filling failure.

IVith the ordinary temple thread -cutter there is a possibility of the cutter severing the running filling.

Inasmuch as the cutting device in accordance with my invention operates only when the filling breaks or is exhausted instead of on every pick, the wear upon the parts is greatly reduced and the cutting-blades retain their sharpness for a long time.

My invention is not restricted to the precise construction and arrangement herein shown and described, as the same may be varied or rearranged in different particulars by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of my invention.

Having fully described my invention, what 1 claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a loom, in combination, lilling-replenishing mechanism, two filling-detectors to detect filling failure on alternate picks, means in connection with and operated by or through said detectors to control the operation of said mechanism, and means controlled directly by one of said detectors to sever the filling end due to filling replenishment.

2. In a loom, in combination, filling-repleir ishing mechanism, two filling-detectors to detect filling failure on alternate picks, means in connection with and operated by or through said detectors to control the operation of said mechanism, and means controlled by the tie tector at the re ilenishing side of the loom to sever the filling end due to filling replenishment.

3. In a loom. in combination, lilling'replenishing mechanism, two filling-detectors to detect filling failure on alternate picks, means in connection With and operated by or through said detectors to control the operation of said mechanism, a normally inoperative temple thread-cutter at the replenishing side of the loom, and means controlled by the adjacent filling-detector to operate the thread-cutter and sever the filling end due to filling replenishment.

l. In a loom, in combination, filling-replenishing mechanism, two filling-detectors to dctectfilling failure on alternate picks, means in connection with and operated by or through said detectors to control the operation of said mechanism, normally inoperative severing means for the filling end, and connections betilt l tween said means and the adjacent detector to operatively position said means by or through detection of filling failure by said detector and to thereafter effect the operation of said means prior to the next detectii'ig pick of the said detector.

In a loom, two filling-forks located at opposite sides of the loom, filling-replenishing mechanism controlled as to its operation by or through said forks upon detection of filling failure by either, filling-end-severing means adjacent one of said forks, and connections between the latter and said means to positively effect the operation of the severing means and part the filling end after the fresh filling has been beaten in and prior to the next detecting pick for said fork.

6. In a loom, in combination, main and auxiliary filling detectors, filling replenishing mechanism the operation whereof is directly controlled by the main detector and indirectly by the auxiliary detector, upon detection of filling failure, a temple thread-cutter to sever the lilling end, and rendered operative by dctecting action of the auxiliary detector, and means controlled directly thereby to positively operate said thread-cutter and sever the filling end prior to the next detecting pick of said auxiliary detector.

7. In a loom, in combination, main and auxiliary filling detectors, filling rcplel'iishing mechanism the operation whereof is directly controlled by the main detector and indirectly by the auxiliary detector, upon detection of filling failure, filling-end-severing means adjacent the auxiliary detector, a spring to operatively set said means upon detection of filling failure by the auxiliary detector, and connections between the latter and said means to positively effect the operation of the same when set, to thereby sever the filling end.

8. In a loom, in combination, main and auxiliary filling-forks, their slides. filling-replenishing mechanism controlled as to its operation by or through movementof a slide upon detection of filling failure by either detector, filling-end-severing means, including a rela tively movable severing member, a spring to operatively position it upon operative movement of the auxiliary slide, and a positive connection between the latter and said movable severing member, to operate the same and Sever the filling end by or through return movement of the auxiliary slide.

9. In a loom, in combination, filling-replenishing mechanism operative automatically upon filling failure to provide a fresh supply of filling, a filling-detector located at the same side of the loom, filling-end-severing means normally maintained inoperative by said detector and rendered operative upon detection of filling failure thereby, and means to positively control the actuation of said severing means by or through the detector after detection of filling failure thereby.

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10. In a loom, in combination, filling-replenishing mechanism operative automatically upon filling failure to provide a fresh supply of filling, a filling-detector located at the same side of the loom, a temple adjacent said detector and provided with cooperating fixed and movable cutting members, a spring to operatively position the movable cutting member, and a positive connection between the latter and the detector and controlled by the latter, to permit the spring to act upon detection of filling failure by the detector, and thereafter to retract said member, to part the filling end due to filling replenishment prior to the next detecting pick of said detector.

11. In a loom.in combination,filling-replenishing mechanism operative automatically upon filling failure to provide a fresh supply of filling, a filling-detectorlocated at the same side of the loom, its slide, having a projection thereon, an adjacent temple thread-cutter, a spring to render the same operative upon the movement of the slide due to detection of filling failure by the detector, and a rocking connection between the thread-cutter and the slide, return movement of the latter acting through the projection thereon to rock said connection and effect the operation of the thread-cutter and sever the filling end, and to maintain said cutter inoperative until the next outward movement of the slide.

12. In a loom provided with filling-replenishing mechanism, two filling-forks located at opposite sides of the loom, their slides, means in connection with and operated by operative movement of either slide to control the operation of the replenishing mechanism, a temple thread-cutter at the replenishing side of the loom, to sever the filling end due to filling replenishment, and a direct controlling connection between said thread'cutter and the adjacent fork-slide, whereby upon movement of the slide the threzul-cutter is rendered operative and upon the return movement of the slide the thread-cutter is positively operated.

13. In aloom, a lay. two filling-forks located at opposite sides of the loom, filling-replenishing mechanism controlled as to its operation by or through said forks upon detection of filling failure by either, a temple at the replenishing side of the loom, filling-end-severing means carried thereby, and direct controlling connections between said means and the adjacent filling-fork, whereby the severing means is operated to sever the filling end on the backward stroke of the lay after the first pick of fresh filling has been beaten in.

14. Inaloom,in combination,filling-replenishing mechanism, means to effect automatically the operation of said mechanism by or through filling failure, a temple,normally qui escent and inoperative thread-cutting means carried thereby, to sever the filling end due to filling replenishment, a fillingdetector, and means directly controlled thereby to effect the operation of the thread-cutting means only upon detection of filling failure by said fillingdetector.

15. In a loom, in combination, filling replenishing mechanism, means to efiect automatically the operation of said mechanism by or through filling failure, a temple, a movable, normally housed and inoperative cuttingblade mounted therein, a filling-detector, and means controlled directly thereby and acting only upon detection of filling failure to project said blade into position to engage the filling end due to filling replenishment and immediately thereafter retract the blade and sever the engaged filling end.

16. Inaloom,in combination,filling-replenishing mechanism, means to effect automatically the operation of said mechanism by or through filling failure, a temple, cooperating fixed and movable cutting members carried thereby and normally housed, a filling-detector, and means controlled directly thereby and operative only upon detection of filling failure to effect relative movement of said members into position to receive between them and then sever the filling end due to filling replenishment, the severing action of the cutting members restoring them immediately to normal, housed position.

In testimony \vhereofI have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ALIDA M. MARCOUX.

\Vitnesses:

GEO GE OTIS DRAPER, ERNEST N. 700D. 

